Description: Get professional color for up to 50% lower cost per page than lasers. Easily print on the go, and increase productivity with wireless and wired networking, plus automatic two-sided printing. Rely on HP to help conserve resources.

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Get professional color for up to 50% lower cost per page than lasers. Easily print on the go, and increase productivity with wireless and wired networking, plus automatic two-sided printing. Rely on HP to help conserve resources.

The 8100 Pro is just a printer. That's all it does. But, it does it so well! As a teacher, my wife does a lot of high volume printing. Print speed and ink cartridge life are paramount. This printer delivers. While your average inkjet printer will deliver 7 pages per minute, this one shoots pages out at 20+ per minute. Even at high resolution settings, it's still 3X as fast as any other injet we have. Two sided printing is slower as it takes a small break after printing the first side to allow the ink to dry before running the page through for side 2.

Print cartridges reportedly hold about 10ml color and 20ml black. They last a very long time. They can also be refilled if you choose to do so. If you do use recycled or refilled cartridges, just push "OK" when the printer points out you're not using a genuine or refilled HP cartridge. I've found unplugging newer HP printers, while removing and refilling cartridges, eliminates those warnings all together. Probably depends...

I purchased this printer mostly as a back-up printer I have a Xerox ColorCube, which I love, but there are some coupons sites which will not print to my ColorCube.

There were two main factors which helped me make the decision to purchase this printer. #1, it's highly rated on Consumer Reports. #2, it offers wireless printing. I have three computers in my home, and it's nice to have it in a "central" area. Also, though I don't really do this, I'm sure it's nice to be able to print from your phone.

Currently Amazon.com has very little information listed about this printer, so I thought I would go into a little more detail. . .

This printer offers "eprint".

About ePrintHP ePrint lets you print from virtually anywhere to an HP printer that supports ePrint. Once enabled, ePrint assigns an email address to your printer. To print, simply send an email containing your document to your printers' address. You can print images, Word and...

I purchased this with some fear and trepidation because of the multitude of software (driver) problems I had with the HP D5460. I have had the unit for only two weeks but so far it has worked well with the exception that there are serious problems with the full version of the drivers, which tech support was not able to solve. (We concluded the tech support conversation with the agreement that I would reinstall the drivers and the tech would call me back to check on the results. However, I never received the return call.)

Fortunately, HP offers a basic version of the drivers which, with one exception, has worked well. I tried the full version, after initially installing the basic version, because i concluded (incorrectly) that I needed the full version in order to get the help and manual features. The manual and help files can be installed by selecting Install More Software from the disk that comes with the unit.The problems with the full version drivers is complicated...